A MUM-of-two says she lives in fear of dropping dead at the dinner table due to a condition known as “vampire disease”. The rare disorder, known as acute intermittent porphyria, means P… ...

An American woman’s battle with a rare and debilitating disease has captured attention for its eerie resemblance to vampire folklore. Phoenix Nightingale, 32, suffers from acute intermittent ...

The vampire is a common image in today’s pop culture, and one that takes many forms: from Alucard, the dashing spawn of Dracula in the PlayStation game “Castlevania: Symphony of the Night”; to Edward, ...

She’s the real-life Count Dracula. A woman’s rare “vampire disease” causes her to writhe in pain and could even be fatal if she ingests garlic, much like the mythical bloodsucking ...

A woman's rare "vampire disease" causes her to writhe in pain and could even be fatal if she ingests garlic, much like the mythical bloodsucking creatures.

Thanks to centuries of folklore, novels, movies, and TV shows, the tropes of vampires are carved deep into the popular ...

ZAROZJE, Serbia - Get your garlic, crosses and stakes ready: a bloodsucking vampire is on the loose. Or so say villagers in the tiny western Serbian hamlet of Zarozje, nestled between lush green ...

It's not just vampires that have a fear of garlic. Heather has suffered with a garlic phobia for years. Known as alliumphobia, this fear has dominated her life, ...

The rules are, um, hard to swallow. "You have to chew and swallow each garlic clove before you eat another piece," says Daniel "D.J." Horn, 29, of Manorville, who came in first last year by ...